Attorneys: Salvadoran Colonel's health declining in new jail
Jonathan Drew, Associated Press
Updated 3:58 pm, Thursday, May 25, 2017
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After a judge sought to send an ailing Salvadoran colonel to a prison hospital, the U.S. Marshals Service instead moved him to a different jail that boasts "the lowest cost-per-day for inmate incarceration" in Virginia.
Now lawyers for the man accused of plotting notorious war crimes say he's being denied the medical care he needs, leaving him too weak to help himself to the bathroom. On Thursday, the judge demanded an update from federal prosecutors on medical care for Inocente Orlando Montano Morales.
Montano's diabetes and susceptibility to infection after bladder cancer raise questions about whether he will live long enough to face trial on charges he helped plot the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests during El Salvador's civil war. The federal judge reviewing Spain's efforts to extradite Montano has described his conditions as "life-threatening," even though he previously denied his request to live with family members while his case unfolds.
James Todd, an attorney for the 75-year-old Montano, wrote in a court filing that his daily blood sugar readings weren't completed for five days straight earlier this month, with Piedmont Regional Jail classifying them as "overdue tasks." Todd says records also show he wasn't receiving physical therapy for back pain after a fall at a North Carolina jail.
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